Justine K Collins

Tracing British West Indian Slavery Laws

A Comparative Analysis of Legal Transplants

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781032122991
• ISBN-10: 1032122994
• Artikelnr.: 62573210

Autorenporträt

Dr Justine K. Collins is an independent researcher.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
Chapter 1: The origins of legal transplantation in the British West Indies,
1500s-1700s.
Chapter 2: The origins of slave laws within the British West Indies 1600s.
Chapter 3: The comprehensive slave codes of the British West Indies and
their reverberations, 1660s-1700s.
Chapter 4: The tole of legal transplantation within manumission law and
other ameliorative measures.
Chapter 5: Legal transplantation within post-emancipatory British West
Indies, 1830s-1870s.
Conclusion.